From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alexander Pohoyda Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: RMAIL, MIME clean-up, coding system Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 23:36:06 +0200 (CEST) Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <200310072136.h97La6dL004066@oak.pohoyda.family> References: <200310051053.h95ArIwj001185@oak.pohoyda.family> <1659-Tue07Oct2003232035+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1065563471 22747 80.91.224.253 (7 Oct 2003 21:51:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 21:51:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 07 23:51:06 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A6zjW-0007hU-00 for ; Tue, 07 Oct 2003 23:51:06 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A6zjV-0002g6-00 for ; Tue, 07 Oct 2003 23:51:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1A6zbh-0003Ng-D6 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Tue, 07 Oct 2003 17:43:01 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1A6zbb-0003N1-FF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Oct 2003 17:42:55 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1A6zb5-0003GR-IO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Oct 2003 17:42:54 -0400 Original-Received: from [213.165.64.20] (helo=mail.gmx.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.24) id 1A6zVE-0002LS-KK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Oct 2003 17:36:20 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 10399 invoked by uid 65534); 7 Oct 2003 21:36:17 -0000 Original-Received: from p508BD3A3.dip.t-dialin.net (EHLO oak.pohoyda.family) (80.139.211.163) by mail.gmx.net (mp016) with SMTP; 07 Oct 2003 23:36:17 +0200 X-Authenticated: #14602519 Original-Received: from oak.pohoyda.family (oak.pohoyda.family [127.0.0.1]) by oak.pohoyda.family (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h97LaC3V004071; Tue, 7 Oct 2003 23:36:12 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from apog@oak.pohoyda.family) Original-Received: (from apog@localhost) by oak.pohoyda.family (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h97La6dL004066; Tue, 7 Oct 2003 23:36:06 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from apog) Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: <1659-Tue07Oct2003232035+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:16989 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:16989 > > Using a message-global X-Coding-System header field is not an option > > anymore. > > Sorry, I don't see why not; we could, for example, use emacs-mule, > right? What do we do when we save an email to the file? Am I right that the file encoded using emacs-mule will only be readable by Emacs? > > The only solution I see is to base64/quoted-printable encode > > entities before saving the message to file. > > > > Comments, please? > > Yuck! (Sorry, couldn't resist: I _hate_ encodings that aren't > readable by humans outside specialized software.) Do you mean base64 or emacs-mule encoding here? Non-specialized software is not able to correctly show you the file which contains parts encoded in different coding systems, is it? -- Alexander Pohoyda PGP Key fingerprint: 7F C9 CC 5A 75 CD 89 72 15 54 5F 62 20 23 C6 44